Lexington, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

VMI World War II Memorial

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012

1. VMI World War II Memorial Marker 1

Inscription. Men of the Virginia Military Institute
who died in the Armed Services
in World War II 1941 – 1946
Reid Stanley Aaron Va. 1940 • Hawes Netherlands Adams N.J. 1943 • James Rivers Adams Va. 1931 • George David Akers Va. 1948 – A • James Granville Allen, Jr. Tenn. 1944 • James Pleasant Allen, Jr. Ga. 1933 • Marvin Judson Anderson, Jr. Va. 1943 • Charles Castro Arms N.C. 1939 • Charles Harwood Augustine Va. 1945 • John Richard Banks N.J. 1942 • Joseph X. Bell Va. 1938 • Belton Allan Bennett, Jr. S.C. 1934 • Beverly Sydnor Blackburn Va. 1943 • Neville Dean Blakemore Va. 1934 • Lawrence Crain Blanchard, Jr. La. 1930 • Robert Woodfin Boggess, Jr. Texas 1940 • Richard Booth, Jr. Va. 1938 • Paul Lambert Borden, Jr. N.C. 1938 • Jay Killian Bowman, Jr. Va. 1945 • Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. Ky. 1906 • George Thompson Burdeau, Jr. Mo. 1911 • John Ryd Bush Ga. 1946 • Charles Augustus Butler, Jr. 1941 • Cornelius Zane Bryd Va. 1926 • William Curtis Campbell, Jr. Va. 1946 • John Randolph Tucker Carmichael Ky. 1931 • Whitman Stratton Carpenter N.Y. 1943 • Bernard Pitzer Carter,

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Jr. Va. 1939 • Louis Guion Chadwick Va. 1930 • Philip Godfrey Chapman Texas 1940 • John Hamilton Christian, Jr. W.Va. 1944 • Douglas Maryon Clarke Pa. 1930 • Cecil Powell Coburn N.C. 1944 • Franklin Watts Coffman Va. 1945 • William Winston Coleman Va. 1939 • Freeling Tufts Colt Pa. 1938 • Joseph Bennett Coopwood Texas 1927 • Hester Clark Cothron Va. 1937 • Willis Jefferson Dance, Jr. Va. 1941 • Alfred Carlyle Darden, Jr. 1937 • William Howard Union Darden Va. 1940 • Edgar Marshall Dickerson D.C. 1930 • Richard Parada Dillon Va. 1945 • Gerald R. Dopkin N.J. 1947 – D • Kenna Granville Eastham Va. 1910 • William Watson Emory Md. 1935 • Arnold Hooper Ewell Va. 1946 • Andre Poitevin Fallwell Va. 1945 • Charles James Faulkner, IV Va. 1940 • Joseph Henry Fleming, Jr. Tenn. 1939 • Charles Benedict Fodale Mass. 1940 • Walter Alexander Ford, Jr. N.C. 1931 • Thomas Pope Fullilove La. 1928 • Robert Ostwald Garrett, Jr. Va. 1931 • James Clifton Gilliland Texas 1932 • Sidney Rogers Gittens, Jr. Pa. 1945 • Alfred Parker Goddin, Jr. Va. 1942 • Charles Henry Gompf Va. 1942 • Fleming

VMI World War II Memorial Marker 2 image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012

2. VMI World War II Memorial Marker 2

Clark Goolsey Va. 1941 • Robert Lancaster Guy Va. 1942 • Frank Gilbredth Hamilton Va. 1945 • George Ben Johnston Handy Va. 1940 • Joseph D’Alton Harris Va 1940 • Seale Harris, Jr. Ala. 1923 • Charles Fauntleroy Harrison Va. 1931 • Charles Frederick Haupt N.Y. 1947 – A • Jesse Hartwell Heath, Jr. Va. 1938 • Louis Armistead Heindl, Jr. Va 1942 • Fred Bruce Hill Ky. 1941 • Frederick Allen Hippey Va. 1939 • Shirley Thomas Holland, Jr. Va. 1942 • Woodard Hoover Md. 1943 • Gilder Stansbury Horne, Jr. N.C. 1941 • Henry Clay Hudgins Va. 1932 • William Hervey Humlong, Jr. Mich. 1945 • Victor Hugo Idol, Jr. N.C. 1941 • John Kessler Jones, Jr. N.J. 1946 • James Nutty Jones Va. 1927 • Meriwether Jones Va. 1942 • Robert Emory Jones Va. 1945 • Thaddeus Wallace Jones, Jr. 1939 • Benjamin Rives Kearfott Va. 1943 • Charles Leslie Keerans, Jr. N.C. 1920 • William Parham Kevan, Jr. Va. 1939 • Philip Henry Killey W.Va. 1941 • Everett Glenn King Ga. 1942 • Rufus DeWitt King, Jr. Ga. 1936 • Stuart Waller King Va. 1919 • William Joseph Lang, Jr. Texas 1940 • Valentine Browne Lawlwss Va.

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3. VMI World War II Memorial Marker

1932 • Robert Thornton Lemmon, Jr. Va. 1943“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”

( Second Marker : )Robert Augustus Lewis, Calif. 1942 • Lewis Archie Lillard, Va. 1942 • Jackson Sterling Littrell, N.Y. 1939 • Malcolm Blanchar MacKinnon, N.Y. 1940 • James Sinclair MacLean, Jr. Va. 1945 • Beriah Magoffin, III, Minn. 1936 • William Mahl, Jr., N.Y. 1945 • William Dow Markin, Ohio 1943 • Arthur Walter Marklis, Mass. 1932 • Richard Jaquelin Marshall, Jr., Va. 1944 • Walter Coleman Martin, Jr., Va. 1945 • Walter Norris Mason, Jr., Va. 1932 • George Alvin Massenburg, Jr., Va. 1942 • James Thomas Matthews, Va. 1947 – G • Nelson Eugene McCaa, Miss. 1940 • William Sayers McCauley, Va. 1941 • John Knudson McCullough, Ala. 1942 • John Joseph McEveety, N.Y. 1937 • Douglas Garvin McMillin, Tenn. 1940 • George Franklin Miller, Va. 1929 • Noel McHenry Moore, Jr., Ga. 1930 • Dan Joseph Morton, Ga. 1941 • Marcus Alfred Mullen, N.Y. 1936 • Charles Francis Nash, II, Va. 1941 • Alexander Caldwell Newton, Fla. 1931 • Robert

Markers at the Virginia Military Institute image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012

4. Markers at the Virginia Military Institute

Both of the VMI World War II Memorial markers can be seen on either side of the south entrance to Stonewall Jackson barracks.

Williamson Nix, III, Va. 1939 • David Ramsey Oakey, Va. 1942 • Leo Elmer Ofenstein, Md. 1937 • Thomas Ranson Opie, Va. 1940 • Addison Wilson Palmer, Jr., Fla. 1934 • George Smith Patton, Jr., Calif. 1907 Alexander Bruce Pendleton, Va. 1937 • George Booker Peters, Va. 1941 Samuel Duncan Puller, Va. 1922 • George Walter Renneman, N.Y. 1945 • John Marshall Ribble, Va. 1921 • William Thomas Semmes Roberts, Va. 1920 • Layne Rogers, Jr. Ill. 1945 • Edward Dunston Romm, Va. 1931 • William Val Sanford, Tenn. 1914 • Leonard Savitz, Pa. 1947 – A • Bailby Moses Sawyer, N.Y. 1927 • Ivanhoe Harrison Sclater, Jr. Mass. 1937 • James Fiske Searcy, Pa. 1941 • John Andrew Shanklin, Jr., W.Va. 1938 • Harold Carlock Sheffey, Va. 1937 • William Gray Shultz, Md. 1941 • Robert Luther Sibley, Jr. W.Va. 1938 • Manley Olin Simpson, Jr. Va. 1942 • Franklin Fletcher Smith, N.C. 1927 • Harry Lee Smith, Jr., Va. 1945 • James Alexander Smith, III, Va. 1940 • William Alexander Smith, Va. 1944 •Walter Stanley Smith, Jr., Pa. 1946 • Joseph Alfred Sosbee, Jr. Ark. 1941 • Augustus Rudd Spencer, Va.

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1941 • George Hubert Steed, Jr., Va. 1941 • Virginius Rawls Stell, Jr., Va. 1944 • Joseph Warren Stirni, Va. 1931 • John Vandergrift Summerlin, Va. 1929 • Joseph Andrew Summers, Jr., Tenn. 1944 • Joseph Rodney Swetting, Jr., Pa. 1941 • Samuel Augustus Syme, D.C. 1921 • James Preston Taylor, Va. 1945 • Peyton Lisby Wade Thompson, Jr., Ga. 1943 • Edward Wood Thomson, Pa. 1919 • Paul Jones Thomson, Jr., Va. 1941 • Thomas Lee Thrasher, Jr., Va. 1941 • William Frederick Topham, Va. 1939 • Harold Willard Treakle, Va. 1945 • Norman Randolph Turpin, Va. 1942 • Richard William Twombly, Idaho 1944 • Maurice Linwood Tyler, Jr., Va. 1944 • William Peterkin Upshur, Va. 1902 • Carter Spottswood Vaden, Va. 1935 • Eugene Roane Venable, Va. 1934 • Sydney Archibald Vincent, Jr., Va. 1940 • Linwood Vinson, Jr., Va. 1940 • Robert Dade Wall, N.C. 1942 • David Garland Waller, Va. 1945 • Harvey Mitchell Walthall, Md. 1945 • Joseph Guthrie Ward, Va. 1917 • John James Ward, Jr., Va. 1934 • John Burroughs Warren, Jr., Texas 1933 • George Major White, N.C. 1939 • Walter Pleasants White, Va. 1945 • George Cooley Willcox, Mich. 1924 • William Robinson Williams, Va. 1925 • John David Wilson, Ky. 1939 • John Allison Woodall, Texas 1929 • Horatio Cornick Woodhouse, Jr., Va. 1936 •Edgar Mantlebert Young, Jr., Va. 1933 • Benjamin Allen Frye, Jr. Pa. 1945“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.

Location. 37° 47.423′ N, 79° 26.104′ W. Memorial is in Lexington, Virginia. It is on Letcher Avenue, on the left when traveling east. Marker is on the grounds of the Virginia Military Institute, at the Stonewall Jackson barracks. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Lexington VA 24450, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: George Washington (a few steps from this marker); Jackson’s Classroom (within shouting distance of this marker); Virginia Military Institute Historic District (within shouting distance of this marker); Barracks The Virginia Military Institute (within shouting distance of this marker); General Lemuel C. Shepherd Jr. (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Cadet Battery (about 300 feet away); Little Sorrel (about 300 feet away); a different marker also named Virginia Military Institute (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Lexington.

Another marker is no longer nearby. Virginia Military Institute (was about 400 feet away but has been permanently removed).

Credits. This page was last revised on August 7, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 19, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 2,141 times since then and 65 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 19, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.